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<blockquote data-quote="lovemysons" data-source="post: 763932" data-attributes="member: 3305"><p>Those are interesting questions Copa. I know for awhile I didn’t want to accept that I had mental illness (stigma). I mean how did I function for 40 years without medication??? </p><p>Against the tide for 40 years, that’s how. </p><p>I also tried quitting my medication and within 5 days was crying hysterically and telling my husband how the world would be okay without me. I realized I absolutely have to take my medicine now.</p><p></p><p>I know there is a genetic component to my illness through my bio dad that I was not raised by or close to. My son who passed away was the spitting image of my bio dad.</p><p></p><p>I definitely wish I had known more about mental illness when my sons were young. I was not raised around boys or a father so I didn’t know that I had more than just challenging rambunctiousness boys. It wasn’t till their teenage years when drugs got involved that I was first told about Bipolar Disorder in my son who recently passed away. The medication they gave him made him zombie like and very depressed. I took him off of it and did not take him to see a psychiatrist again for many years. If he had been on medication the whole time…maybe he would have accepted his mental illness and eventually gotten on the right medication. </p><p>I’ll never know now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lovemysons, post: 763932, member: 3305"] Those are interesting questions Copa. I know for awhile I didn’t want to accept that I had mental illness (stigma). I mean how did I function for 40 years without medication??? Against the tide for 40 years, that’s how. I also tried quitting my medication and within 5 days was crying hysterically and telling my husband how the world would be okay without me. I realized I absolutely have to take my medicine now. I know there is a genetic component to my illness through my bio dad that I was not raised by or close to. My son who passed away was the spitting image of my bio dad. I definitely wish I had known more about mental illness when my sons were young. I was not raised around boys or a father so I didn’t know that I had more than just challenging rambunctiousness boys. It wasn’t till their teenage years when drugs got involved that I was first told about Bipolar Disorder in my son who recently passed away. The medication they gave him made him zombie like and very depressed. I took him off of it and did not take him to see a psychiatrist again for many years. If he had been on medication the whole time…maybe he would have accepted his mental illness and eventually gotten on the right medication. I’ll never know now. [/QUOTE]
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